gksudo feature request - Grey out the background

[Eric Feliksik]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Probably digestion time. :-) I don't think it's critical to highlight the
> window *that* much, but we do need to ensure that the window manager places
> it front and centre, and possibly decorates it differently. There is an
> 'urgent' flag which theme authors can use to highlight windows differently,
> rather like the black and yellow 'danger' stripes on some (read: very few)
> Mac OS X window decorations.
> 
> I think dimming the rest of the workspace would be a bit too jarring for a
> relatively common function.
> 
> - Jeff
> 


A different window decoration would indeed be okay; but currently, the 
whole window decoration isn't usable (it's disabled from input).

I think a change of brightness would be annoying - but just grayscaling 
is quite subtle (and hardly noticable if there's a big window in the 
background, as white stays white). Just the feedback that's needed: 
"hey, only one window can be used right now".

I won't keep on nagging, but I must at least ask people here to try it 
with a screenshot and a grayscaled version of it :)

Eric